Details
MANSFIELD
SK5360 NOTTINGHAM ROAD
924-1/7/91 (East side)
Nottingham Road Methodist Church
GV II
Methodist church. 1913. Probably by Brewill & Baily.
Rock-faced ashlar and yellow brick, with ashlar dressings and
gabled and hipped Westmorland slate roofs. Free Gothic style.
Apsidal east end with vestries and meeting rooms, aisleless
nave with double transepts, south-west tower with spire.
EXTERIOR: canted apse has central 3-light pointed-arch window
with panel tracery, and to south a single window. Meeting
room, placed crosswise at the east end, has hipped north end
with ridge stack. Coped south gable with finial and square
flanking buttresses with flat caps, and 3-light pointed arch
window with panel tracery. East side has four 3-light leaded
casements and a door with sidelights, all with segmental
heads.
Vestry, to south of apse, has lintel band, string course and
blocking course, and hipped roof. Large canted bay window to
left, with a 4-light mullioned window flanked by single
lights. To right, a door with overlight, flanked to left by a
small window.
Nave has buttresses on each side, and 3 traceried 2-light
pointed-arch windows. West end has heavy shouldered coped
gable with a Perpendicular-style 3-light pointed-arch window,
with mullions in the form of buttresses, in a deep splayed
reveal with hoodmould and stops. Below, projecting entrance
bay with gabled flanking buttresses topped with square
pedestals with crenellated moulded copings. Segmental pointed
arch with panelled double doors and traceried fanlight, under
a concave swept gable. Beyond, on either side, a single ogee
lancet with hoodmould. To north, a small square tower with a
single blind lancet on each side at the top. The corners are
carried up to form square pinnacles with moulded flat caps.
At the north-west corner, a stair enclosure with shouldered
coped gable, string course and coped parapet. 2 single lancets
with hoodmoulds to west and north. North gable has, above, a
tall single lancet.
South transept has coped gables and 3 gabled buttresses topped
with square pinnacles. Two 3-light pointed arch windows with
panel tracery. Plainer north transept has similar windows.
Square south-west tower, 3 stages, has gabled diagonal
buttresses topped with flat-topped square pinnacles, string
course and coped parapet, with a central lancet on each side
under a tiny gable. Ground stage has to west a
segmental-pointed doorway with hoodmould and impost band and
panelled double door with traceried overlight. Above it, 2
small lancets with impost band. To south, a canted projection
with hipped roof and moulded cornice. 3-light mullioned window
flanked by single lights. Second stage has a narrow single
lancet on 3 sides. Bell stage has on each side a splayed
recess with moulded segmental pointed head, with 2
single-lancet louvred bell openings divided by a stepped
buttress. Setback plain octagonal spire with ball finial.
INTERIOR. chancel has moulded arch with hoodmould and corbels,
and round shafts. On either side, a tall pointed opening, the
left with organ pipes, the right with a door. Apse has wooden
ribs. To east, triple lancet with stained glass, 1913,
possibly by Morris & Co. To north, 2 pointed arches with organ
pipes. To south, blank arch and window with patterned stained
glass.
Nave has arch braced roof with collar and wall shafts on
corbels. Iron tie rods with tracery. West end has traceried
wooden gallery with rounded ends, and below it, a glazed
wooden screen with a glazed double door at each side.
Patterned stained glass throughout.
Transepts have moulded arches with a round granite central
pier. North transept has a doorway to east.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has stained-glass screens and doors.
Tower has concrete winder stairs with iron stick balusters.
Meeting room has arch braced roof.
FITTINGS: traceried panelled octagonal wooden pulpit and
stair, traceried reading desk, choir stalls and lectern, all
mid C20. Panelled curved benches with shaped ends.
MEMORIALS include 3 resited marble tablets, C19.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 170).
Listing NGR: SK5395060696
